5 Season
60 Episode
The Wire - Season 1 Episode 5 The Pager
Listen carefully.
"..a little slow, a little late." - Avon Barksdale. McNulty's detail finally gets 'clone' pagers to track Barksdale and his gang, but nobody can crack the codes used by the callers. Meanwhile, Bell instructs D'Angelo on how to school his lookouts while simultaneously flushing out a possible snitch. Later, Carver and Herc find Bodie, but their interrogation doesn't turn up results.
- Year: 2008
- Country: United States of America
- Genre: Crime, Drama
- Studio: HBO
- Keyword: corruption, newspaper, drug trafficking, drug dealer, baltimore, usa, gangster, police, organized crime, police detective, surveillance, power politics, urban decay, newspaper reporter, wiretapping, workers union, education system, docks, black project, mayoral election, violence, homicide department
- Director: David Simon
- Cast: Dominic West, Lance Reddick, Sonja Sohn, Wendell Pierce, Michael Kenneth Williams, Deirdre Lovejoy